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10:30-11:30: Documenting African Heritage: In conversation with Angela Fisher & Carol<br />
Beckwith<br />
For thirty years American-born Carol Beckwith and Australian Angela Fisher have been documenting the fastdisappearing<br />
traditional cultures of Africa. Since their original meeting in Kenya, the two photographers have<br />
travelled over 270,000 miles through forty countries and encountered more than 150 African cultures. This<br />
year they will be adding their experience in Somaliland to their long list of publications. In this session, the two<br />
photographers will talk about their experience, expectations and what they imagine about the land, the culture,<br />
and the people in their first trip to Somaliland.<br />
11:30-12:30: Discussion on Somaliland relevant issues and a Book Launch: “A Somali nation-state: History,<br />
Culture and Somaliland's Political Transition” by Michael Walls<br />
The session will be followed by a book signing.<br />
Michael Walls is the Director of Research and Course Director of the MSc programme in<br />
Development Administration and Planning at the Development Planning Unit, UCL (University<br />
College London). His doctoral research considered the process of state formation in Somaliland<br />
and he maintains an active involvement in a number of Somali-related organisations, including<br />
Somaliland Focus (UK). His book is based on the research conclusion of his thesis. Dr. Walls in<br />
particular focuses on how Somaliland society is shifting from one kind of democracy to a new<br />
one, and the strengths and weaknesses of this transition process. In the presentation of the book,<br />
other national and international observers will join in the discussion and talk about current and<br />
relevant social and political issues in Somaliland.<br />
15:00 - 15:30: Female Writers in the Making<br />
This session will focus on three stories published by three young home<br />
grown female writers in Somaliland: Muna Ahmed, Xamda Maxamed<br />
Xuseen and Nada Yuusuf Omar.<br />
15:30-16:30: Northern winds / Dabaylaha waqooyi / Pohjoisia tuulia: In collaboration with Somaliland<br />
Seura, Finland.<br />
The Finnish participation to this year’s HIBF brings together presenters<br />
Nura Farah, Amran Mohamed Ahmed and Naima Mohamud, and<br />
will be organised in collaboration with Somaliland Seura. Amran<br />
Mohamed Ahmed has been an enthusiastic cultural ambassador for<br />
Somali culture and traditions in Finland and beyond for<br />
more than twenty years. In addition to her beautiful<br />
poetry compositions and her active involvement in<br />
various literary activities, she has been creative and innovative in several media modes, including journalism and<br />
radio & TV program, as an editor and presenter. Nura Farah made an amazing breakthrough on the literary scene in<br />
February 2014 with her novel Daughters Of The Desert, written and published in Finnish. She had been working for several<br />
years on an emancipatory story of her heroine Khadija, which is set in the nomadic environment prior to the independence of<br />
Somali from colonial rule. In her work she reflects on the mind-sets, traditions, emotions, sorrows, joys, and environmental and<br />
cultural challenges faced by a nomadic community. The overall narrative can be seen also as a rarely narrated and extraordinary<br />
love story, or a story of enlightenment and liberation. Naima Mahamud is a film director, screenwriter, columnist, and<br />
photographer. Since her teenage years Naima dreamed of a career in the film business, and hoped of becoming a film director<br />
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